Maggie Bergeron & Company. A Minneapolis modern dance company.
Upcoming
Leaver's Ball
The scene is set for a magical night: the gym has been transformed into a fairytale land of wonder and romance with crepe paper and a disco ball. The music begins as the guests begin to arrive and the photographer begins posing and shooting the teenagers dressed in their finest and bleary-eyed from their transformations. The carnival of scenarios begins….
Thanks to a Jerome Travel and Study Grant, Maggie attended seven different high school proms in 2009 to gather information about the differences between rural, urban, public and private school prom experiences. Maggie visited different regions of the United States in order to witness these events in person and examine the cultural phenomenon as it manifests itself across geography, economies and political affiliations.
Join us for an evening of raucously wild and heartbreakingly honest prom stories told through Maggie Bergeron's choreography and Nick Gaudette's musical compositions.
- Pre-Prom, Post-Prom Party!
- Saturday, April 27th 3:00 PM-6:00 PM
- Memory Lanes
- 2520 26th Ave S. Minneapolis, MN 55406
- $20 Adults, $15 Children/Students
- Premiere
- Red Eye Theater
- Minneapolis, MN
- July 11, 12, 13, 2013 at 7:30 pm
- Also: Maggie Bergeron and Nicholas Gaudette will be performing of the land alongside the North Dakota Ballet Company April 13 at the Empire Arts Center in Grand Forks, ND.
About MB&Co
Maggie Bergeron & Company creates dance works by connecting engaging, resonant images with intriguing movement. Our work strives to stretch perceptions of the ordinary through contrast and idiosyncratic narrative. We always work in collaboration with dancers, musicians, carpenters, sound designers, and composers and are constantly looking for others to help shape what we do.
Accidentally Walking Through Nothing
“Accidentally Walking Through Nothing” (12:00) methodically pieces together the idea of faith through the stories we tell ourselves to get through each day.
- Performed: April 2008 at the Southern Theater as a part of the Shapiro and Smith Dance "Next Steps" concert. Commissioned by Shapiro and Smith Dance.
- Dancers: Sarah Baumert, Eddie Oroyan, Laura Selle Virtucio
- Composer: Aaron Sherraden
- Costumes: Sarah Baumert
House/Home
“House/Home” (35:00) explores ideas of our houses/homes as characters through which we must navigate to create our own existences.
- Performed: July 2007 at the Southern Theatre. Co-Commissioned by the Walker Art Center and the Southern Theater
- Dancers: Sarah Baumert, Hannah Kramer, Leslie O’Neill, Jamie Ryan, Liz Wawrzonek, and Kandace Gaudette (understudy)
- Composer: Chris Thomson
- Set Design: Russell Colliton
- Costumes: Sarah Baumert
A Is for Amy, Who Fell Down the Stairs
“A Is for Amy” (35:00) is based on an unfortunate children’s alphabet written and illustrated by Edward Gorey and uses childlike characters to explore the tenuous line between horror and humor.
- Performed: June 2006 at the Red Eye Theater
- Dancers: Sarah Baumert, Eric Boone, Nora Jenneman, Leslie O’Neill, Eddie Oroyan, Jamie Ryan, and Liz Wawrzonek
- Composer: Chris Thomson
It Is Morning
“It Is Morning” (7:00) is a trio that deconstructs the person/personalities of Grace Marks, the convicted murderess and heroine of Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace as she attempts to remember the unrememberable.
- Performed: November 2005
- Dancers: Leslie O’Neill, Eddie Oroyan and Anna Resele
- Composer: Chris Thomson
Absent
“Absent” (6:45) is a quartet that creates an erie alternate reality as it explores the petty relationships sometimes developed and nurtured by girls and women.
- Performed: February 2005
- Dancers: Sarah Baumert, Eva Mohn, Leslie O’Neill, and Liz Wawrzonek
- Sound: created by Maggie Bergeron and engineered by Collin Sherraden